Lusport v. State

HARPER, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of theft of a horse, and his punishment assessed at two years confinement in the State penitentiary.

On the night of March 16, 1916, J. L. Dwight, living northwest of Grapevine, placed two horses and two mules in his hermuda pasture; the next morning all four head of stock were missing. He discovered where the staples had been pulled, the wire pressed down, and the animals taken from the pasture. Two days after the animals were missed they were recovered, the two mules being in the city pound at Dallas, the mares being found in possession of some Italians…